Discover How North Texas Uses “Hip” Motion to Attack Defenses

North Texas ain’t just slingin’ it with Mestemaker’s air raid circus, they’re scheming with pre-snap smoke to make secondaries glitch. Today we zero in on their inward motion with the slot WR jetting inward to the OT’s hip. In my playbook? That’s Hip Motion. It usually pairs with a TE to mash into the run game, but they also flex a WR in there too. Let’s peel the layers on how they weaponize it.

Split Zone

Classic split zone, but now the hip motion creates the kick out on the slice. Defense sleeps on rotation and boom the RB blasts downhill through the seam for chunk yardage. RPO tag leaves WRs working quicks to the field. Efficient violence.

Split Zone Pop

Same pre-snap picture, different post-snap poison. Backside TE pins then pops free on the release. The motion still executes the slice block to enhance protection. The UNT QB lasers it for the fourth-and-short conversion. Tag the same look, add a variation of the play. Defenses hate this one simple trick.